The next task with our Kubernetes cluster is to set up its monitoring with Prometheus. This task is complicated by the fact, that there is the whole bunch of resources needs to be monitored: from the infrastructure side – ЕС2 WokerNodes instances, their CPU, memory, network, disks, etc key services of Kubernetes itself – its… Read More »
The last time I configured Loki for logs collecting and monitoring was in February 2019 – almost a year ago, see the Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system post, when Loki was in its Beta state. Now we faced with outgoing traffic issues in our Production environments and can’t find who guilty for… Read More »
We are using AWS VPC DNS and sometimes facing with errors like “php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution“. The only advice from AWS tech. support was to configure a local dnsmasq service to act as a local DNS cache, but I did this already year ago and this issue happens once in 1-2-3… Read More »
We have three working environments – Dev, Stage, Production. Also, there are a bunch of alerts with different severities – info, warning и critical. For example: … – name: SSLexpiry.rules rules: – alert: SSLCertExpiring30days expr: probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry{job=”blackbox”} – time() < 86400 * 30 for: 10m labels: severity: info annotations: summary: “SSL certificate warning” description: “SSL certificate… Read More »
In addition to the Prometheus: Alertmanager’s alerts receivers and routing based on severity level and tags post. Have an Alertmanager config with routes. The task is – send all alerts from a Dev-environment into a “/dev/null”. To do this – create an empty receiver: … receivers: – name: ‘blackhole’ – name: ‘default’ slack_configs: – send_resolved:… Read More »
After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More »
Today I decided to upgrade Grafana to already released version 6.0 and all other Docker images as well. Upgrade was successful – Loki eventually started displaying previously missed log-file names and other tags, just – immediately I got a bunch of CRITICAL alerts in our Slack from the blackbox-exporter which is used to check every… Read More »
Let’s proceed with the Loki system. First post of this series – Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system and the second one – Grafana Labs: Loki – distributed system, labels and filters. There is the Grafana’s Slack community with the dedicated #loki channel where you can ask for some assist (and it’s really helpful).… Read More »